AG: Woman Allegedly Used Faked Docs to get Job

A city woman has been arrested for allegedly using forged documents to get a job as a certified nurse’s aide, the state Attorney General has announced.
 
Bassey Justice Woodson, 49, was arrested June 4 on charges of falsifying government documents, theft by deception and uttering a forged instrument, all in the third degree.
 
Woodson allegedly presented a forged Nurse Aide Certification and a forged employment authorization Card when applying for a job as a certified nurse aide in Hackensack.  It is alleged that the nurse aide certification, issued by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, displayed a registration number for someone other than Woodson. An investigation by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit determined that the license associated with the license number expired on Sept. 21, 2008, but Woodson allegedly tampered with the document so that it reflected an expiration date of Sept. 20, the Attorney General’s office said in a statement.
 
The investigation further revealed that the employment authorization card, issued by the  US Department of Homeland Security, allegedly displayed a fraudulent expiration date in 2012 when the card had actually expired in 2007.
 
As a result of her allegedly fraudulent actions, Woodson was hired by Right at Home in Hackensack, a home health aide staffing agency, as a certified nurse aide,  earning $4,410 in salary.